thoughts that stick like glue...

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Wonder if this is a common problem.

I often when I get excited on an idea of any kind, it often stays around for days. It can stick to the point I can't switch the mind off to sleep, often feel the need to talk about it often and in detail. I would often feel not quite myself, like I'm in another world, a world that only thought only mattered.

For example, I have a promising chance for a voluntary job which fits my ICT special interest. The only thoughts I had for days was exactly what to do in explicit detail, the thought can come up I'm casual conversation and I would talk in detail to anyone what I would do exactly.

Another is to do with my interest in Fursuiting for a convention, a friend promises a suit to be done before that and that's the only thing I thought about for days. What I could look like, what to do, and general extreme sense of excitement, some that covers the realm of fetish. I've felt rather euphoric and reality felt switched off a bit during that time.

Its true before with university coursework, particular foods, various gaming/character interests etc...

I wonder if its on part of the autistic mind or one on par with an obsessive-compulsive mindset, both, neither or just normal. Still its really interesting when looking at thinking how you think.

yeah that happens to me a lot, my parents have learnt to be careful, because I get this great idea, like playing the piano, it lasts 3 weeks and then my interest goes.

negative thoughts also stick around a lot which is less helpful

that name of this thread is brilliant by the way, I don't know why, it could be a song lyric, maybe it is and I have forgotten

I don't know if it's a common problem but I tend to follow this pattern. It drives my family members a bit crazy.

If, for example, I am told about a book or game or series or concept I have a tendency to become completely absorbed in it to the exclusion of all else. I will repeatedly approach family members about the topic, adding more details as I think of them. I will forget to eat, barely sleep, and not think about much else for a period of time. This period of time can vary.

A simple reminder of the existence of a game, book, or series, or the reminder of a concept can put me into a mode of being completely absorbed in it.

this. my parents are straight up irritated with my bouncing interests. i did piano too, for 6 months. i was obsessed from the beginning and i was really good. but after time passed i hardly ever touched the instrument again.

I get stuck on things. Activities, thoughts, emotions. When my brain is not shifting too well (easily distracted and extremely forgetful), it doesn't want to shift at all.

This happened to me when my main Special Interest got killed. I bounced from one new interest to another. I would get super excited about my new interested to the point I couldn't sleep, constantly doing, reading and researching it, spending lots of money buying paraphernalia to do with it, buying apps about it and talking to my family about it until their ears bled and then after 3 months, I'd be over it and a new one would start. (I've got enough mountain climbing gear to send a team of 20 up Everest! )

During this period, every time I moved on to a new one, my family would joke "How long is this one going to last?". Strangely enough, it was pretty much always 3 months per new interest.

In hindsight, I can see I was desperately trying to fill the void and relieve the depression that came from losing my main Special Interest that I'd had pretty much all my life. I wound up being hospitalised for depression and then Myna birds (acridotheres tristis) found me and has been my Special Interest for more than 2 years now.

It has been my experience that you can't really pick your Special Interests. They have to pick you. Mind you, during that period, I never consciously sat down and though "What can I be interested in this time?" The new interests would just come naturally but none of them stuck. Maybe this is how it works until we find something that sticks (like Myna birds has with me). Strange! We've had plenty of these birds in our area all my life and I never noticed them and one day Mum commented on these "ugly" Myna birds. I told her they weren't ugly and started getting an interest in them and the rest is history. I'm hooked! Did you know, you can teach them to talk (mimic)? They're wonderful!! !

I have the problem of constantly fixating on negative thoughts about myself and my past. Still trying to work on them, and tell myself something more positive, but it can be hard to get them out of my head. I see a CBT therapist, will see what he suggests at the next appointment.